Wedding: Letterpressed Invitations

“Find something you are passionate about
and keep tremendously interested in it.”– JULIA CHILDS

In celebration of my first anniversary coming up, I going to feature a week of my wedding details. There is no better place to start then with the save the dates and invitations. I wanted to keep them simple but the process is not as simple. I ordered a home letterpress machine (which I bought on ebay because the company is no longer around) to keep cost down and made each invitation by hand. Looking back over a year later, I would say it is fun, but I might have said time consuming or tedious at the time.

I started by rolling gold ink on the roller.I rolled the edges of the save the dates.Then, I rolled the text for the save the dates.I wanted to start small so the save the dates only had the save the date text pressed.Because the save the dates were successful, I decided to do the invitations too.The direction cards pressed and drying.The back of the invitation had a pocket to hold all the additional pieces.For the envelope text, I used the plate as a stamp and embossed it with white. I really liked that the opposites complimented each other: the debossed of the gold on white and the embossed of the white on the gold. The opposites reminded me of my relationship, opposites working together, making a perfect package.